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Dispatches from 2008
Posted on September 7
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Briefly Noted from September 7, 2008
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Canadian electoral map
Map of Canadian ridings uses colours to indicate which party is leading where
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electopinion.ca
The Canadian election as reported on Twitter - very engaging
Topics: Politics, Social Media
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David Foster Wallace in Harper's
Everything the late author wrote for the magazine
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WSJ.com redesigns
A big redesign from a site that hasn't in a long while
Topics: Web Design, Newspapers
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Announcing the "Web Foundation"
Tim Berners-Lee introduces a foundation designed to support the open Web
Topic: Web Culture
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All about HTML's alt
With argument like this, it's no wonder HTML5 will take so long
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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David Foster Wallace dead
The author of Infinite Jest and on of the best novelist of the time apparently committed suicide
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ONA win for The Globe and Mail
Ironically, the news is nowhere to be found online yet (even the Twitter account is quiet - I learned via email)
Topics: Online Journalism, Interactive Journalism
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Sample dating pop-culture
Andy Baio crunches the numbers on the samples in reveals some interesting details.
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The logic of HTML5
Understanding HTML5 issues (e.g., video, alt, 2022) is a lot easier if you know Ian Hickson's online persona
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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Regulating the Internet
A CRTC requested report has some ideas for regulating and funding the Canadian Internet
Topics: Canada, Web Technology
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Resurfacing newspapers
Google plans to scan in old newspapers (including one from Quebec) to make them more publicly available.
Topics: Newspapers, Search Engines
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Microsoft's CSS extensions
IE8 does include support for some CSS3 properties, and will continue to support filters and extensions - but only in a W3C compliant way.
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Publish2: The Web’s Newswire
"A Web-based newswire that makes it easy for journalists and newsrooms to gather, publish, and distribute links to the best news on the Web"
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Globe's election site critiqued
Wrong sentiment, right questions. Elections sites, though, are hard to do well especially when factoring in extenuating (unspoken) circumstances.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Everything you wanted to know about browser user-agent strings*
* But were afraid to ask
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Google Chrome's story
Like Firefox before it, Chrome is a clean attempt to create a browser for today's Web
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
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Shadows coming to Firefox
CSS-based box and text shadows should appear in Firefox 3.1
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Drag and drop with canvas
Clever demo of dragging and dropping using a textarea
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
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Joe Clark's book on Canadian spelling
It's called "Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English" and I can't wait
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Mobile Safari doubles usage
The launch of the iPhone 3G pushes the mobile Safari usage to 0.3%
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Google Chrome
Google's browser means there's a good chance one more test case will have to be run on future Web sites
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
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Seattle tech start-ups
A list of more than 60 of Seattle's tiny companies
Topics: Seattle, Web Technology
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Toronto-area tech start-ups
A comprehensive list of almost 90 of the GTA's tiny companies
Topics: Toronto, Web Technology
Inside
This Just In
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5 steps to CBC success
How to program a national public broadcasting corporation: Operate a…
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Just the facts (and more)
Open source can have a transformational effect for companies, and news organizations are starting to figure that out.
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Canadian election hangover
With the Canadian 2008 election producing no real change, but a lower participation level, it might be time to look into voting alternatives.
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Election blackout in Canada
Watching the election results not come in from the West coast of America is a surreal experience.
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Canadian political slander
Keeping track of the various ways Canadian politicians insult one another from the perspective of a Canadian watching his country's election while living through an American election.